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This study deals with commissive speech act in the Dolittle movie. The
researcher collecting all the dialogues of Dolittle movie and starting from English
subtitles of script data. Then, the researcher identifying the English text in the
dialogue from finding commissive speech acts in the dialogues script by using
Searle’s theory (1985). The researcher used the types of commissive speech acts
to examine the dialogue from Dolittle movie, namely offer, guarantee, refusal,
volunteer and promise. Further, the researcher classifying all the commissive
speech acts found in the movie. These are classified into types of commissive
speech acts. Finally, the researcher found 55 data from commissive speech acts. It
has been found that Promise of commissive speech act has 9 data (16.36%),
Guarantee of commissive speech act has 25 data (45.45%), Refusal of commissive
speech act has 3 data (5.45%), Threat of commissive speech act has 6 data
(10.91%), Volunteer of commissive speech act has 7 data (12.73%), and the last is
Offer of commissive speech act has 5 data (9.09%). From the amount of data that
has been obtained, the researcher concludes that the most dominant of commissive
speech acts is Guarantee of commissive speech act which is 25 data with a
percentage of 45.45%. |
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